On Sun, Nov 06, 2005 at 11:14:11PM +0100, T. Ribbrock wrote:
On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 01:29:56PM +0100, Uwe Gansert wrote:
in another post today I explained how to do add RPMs to an installation source via create_update_source.sh + create_package_descr script. You should try that method too.
Ok, I tried that, but I must be overlooking something, as it didn't work. I'll try to jot down all steps I did - maybe you can see what's wrong: 1) I have a directory on SERVER called "SuSE". It contains: 10.0 (SuSE 10.0 installation sources) 9.3 (SuSE 9.3 installation sources) Packman (Packman installation sources Updates (SuSE 10.0 updates, in two trees) MS_TT-Fonts (local mirror of MS core fonts) SLOX (some stuff for SLOX) Supplementary (some SuSE supplementary stuff) 2) I cd'ed into /PATH/TO/SuSE and ran create_update_source.sh . That created "updates" in /PATH/TO/SuSE 3) I proceeded to copy all Packman RPMs into /PATH/TO/SuSE/updates/i?86 etc. 4) cd /PATH/TO/SuSE/updates/suse and ran: create_package_descr -x setup/descr/EXTRA_PROV -l english -l spanish -l french -l german -l czech -l hungarian -l italian 5) My autoinstall uses this as a source (in 'info'): install: nfs://SERVER/PATH/TO/SuSE/10.0/ 6) I modified my autoinst.xml and added all packages from Packman that I want to install to the <packages config:type="list"> <package>....</package> </packages> section. I did not make any other changes to that file (it was fully functional before, just missing the Packman RPMs) 7) During the autoinstall, the screen still listed only five CDs, just like before. 8) After the autoinstall, the install was functional as before, however, none of the packages from the "updates" directory had been installed. I checked the files in /var/log/YaST and could find the names of those packages as part of the "to install" list, but no error messages or suchlike. Any idea what I missed here? It's probably something blatantly obvious, but I just can't find it... :-( Cheerio, Thomas